Cancer is a cause that hits close to home for Silk Espresso owner, Leah McMahon. In the ten years that she’s been in business, Leah has created a family of loyal, caring customers who share their lives with her each day over a steaming cup of coffee. So in 2008, when long-time customer and friend […]
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On this week’s Past Present podcast, Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, and Neil Young discuss Apple vs. the US, Michael Pollan’s “Cooked,” and Guantanamo Bay. Apple vs U.S. The federal government has sued Apple to develop technology that will allow it to access the locked iPhone of the San Bernardino terrorists. Neil noted the government
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As an English major, you take a lot of classes about the text of famous literature. And often, the very first class you take is Literary Criticism. It’s a class makes you look at the books you’ve read in different ways. You may, for example, find that The Little Mermaid is more about patriarchy than
This is an excerpt from Game Plan: Achieve Your Goals in Life, Career, and Business. Subscribe to Pregame this month and get the digital version free! Once you begin to open your possibilities and expand your vision, you’ll quickly have an epiphany: other people know how to do stuff better than you do! When I finally started
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